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Title Strategies for deconstructing racism in the health and human services / editor, Alma J. Carten ; Co-editors, Alan Siskind, Mary Pender Greene
Published New York : Oxford University Press, [2016]
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Description 1 online resource (xlviii, 341 pages)
Contents Cover; Strategies for Deconstructing Racism in the Health and Human Services ; Copyright ; Dedication ; Contents ; Foreword ; Preface ; Acknowledgments ; Contributing Authors ; Introduction: The Overview
Part One: Building the Infrastructure: Supporting Sustainable Change and Renewal 1. Promoting Organizational and Systemic Change ; 2. Incorporating Antiracist Work at Staff and Board Levels ; 3. Education and Training of a Race-. Conscious Workforce
4. Creating a Culturally Competent Research Agenda 5. When Does Race Matter? Examining Antiracist Organizational Change ; Part Two: Reshaping Theoretical and Practice Paradigms ; 6. Deconstructing White Supremacy ; 7. Theoretical Perspectives for Transformation
8. Antiracist Approaches for Shaping Theoretical and Practice Paradigms Part Three: Systemic Impacts and Special Populations ; 9. Children, Youth, and Family Serving Systems ; 10. Systems Serving Ethnically Diverse Older Adults
11. Barriers to Mental Health and Treatment among Urban Adolescent and Emerging Adult Males of Color Part Four: The Helping Relationship ; 12. The Influence of Race and Ethnicity on Consumer Behaviors
Summary Within the context of the nation's changing demographic and cultural landscape, this one of a kind book brings together a national roster of leading practitioners and scholars who recommend innovative strategies for reducing racial and ethnic disparities that are pervasive across all fields of practice in the health and human services
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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Subject Racism in social services -- United States
Racism in public welfare -- United States
Discrimination in medical care -- United States
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Services.
Discrimination in medical care
Racism in public welfare
Racism in social services
United States
Form Electronic book
Author Carten, Alma J., editor.
Siskind, Alan, editor
Greene, Mary Pender, editor.
ISBN 9780199368914
0199368910